December 05, 1846

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Features

Leslie's Patent Gas Burner

Sunday Elections

Faith Illustrated

Propelling Canal Boats

Departments

Departments

A Hard Rub for Truth

Weeding Ones Friends

The Coming of Winter

Brevity

Cheer up

Raising the Great Britain

A Curious Point of Theory

Temperance at Brighton

Very Benevolent

Great Boy

Give and Take

Voyage to Oregon

A Tavern Governor

General Scott

Want of Foresight

Wonderful Increase

Enterprise in Newark, N. J.

History of Virginia

The Wonder-exciting Cotton

To Correspondents

Mr. Whitney at Louis

Mails from the seat of War

Chinese Bricks

The Magnetic Telegraph

Business at Pittsburgh

My Husband who uses Tobacco

Navigation of the Illinois

Dispatch

Boston Waterworks

The Armistice Justifiable

Thayer 's Bridge

Bangor Lumber

Spot on the Sun

Preaching Abolished

Post-Office Negligence

Horrible Remorse

A Western Story

The Problem

Theory of the Rainbow

The Slave character

Ancient use of Prussic Acid

Improvement in Locomotives

Wheeler's Improved Rail

Improvement in Boot Trees

New Invention in Rail Road Machinery

Artesian Well

Southern Manufactures

To New Subscribers

Tremendous Blast

Imley's Cast Iron Rails

Egypt

A Resolute Girl

The River Trade

The United States and Turkey

The Scientific American

Experiments in Gunnery

Enterprise in Georgia

The Niagara Courier

The First American Ocean Steamship

An Incident of the War

The Bomb Cannon

A Long Bridge

New Jersey Railroads

Singular Theology

Importance of Ventilation

Chemistry

Notes for a Tourist

Politeness

Land Lost

Taylor's Camels

Transcendentalism

Graham's

The Plumb-and Level Indicator

Watch Left

General La Vega Exchanged

Indian War

Yankee Contractors in Canada

Wreck of The Atlantic

Late from Mexico

Terrestial Electricity

The New York Scientific American

The Manufacture of Glass

Mr. Pocock's Kite Carriages

Magnifying Daguerreotypes

Inelined Plane and Curve

Iron Cements

To Find the Area of a Polygon

Successful Gun Trap

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